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A fun and relaxing drop in Art workshop afternoon, suitable for all ages from 2 to 5pm, to help raise funds for the childrens charity, Action Medical Research for Children.
DROP IN ART AFTERNOON
IN GLENUIG HALL ON EASTER SUNDAY (Again!)
A fun and relaxing drop in Art workshop afternoon, suitable for all ages, will be held in Glenuig Hall on Sunday 5th April from 2 to 5pm, to help raise funds for the childrens charity, Action Medical Research for Children.
Local Ceramic and Mosaic Artist Helen Michie is running the workshop and providing the Art materials and help on the day to raise sponsorship to contribute to her event fundraising for the charity to support their life saving work and research into disabilities and diseases in children.
Helen and her team raised over £3,000 last year for the charity by taking part in the “Race the Sun” event in the Brecon Beacons. This year to continue their support for the charity and its amazing contribution to changing children’s lives, Helen is taking part in this years ”Race the Sun” team event in the Lake District on the 29th August.
She will be completing a 50 mile cycle, a 2 mile open canoe paddle on Lake Thirlmere and climbing Helvellyn, Englands third highest mountain at 3,120ft, all between sunrise and sunset (hopefully).
“ I am trying to raise sponsorship for this fantastic charity so it would be great if you could come along to Glenuig on the 5th April where there will be a variety of Art materials to have fun with including clay (of course!), collage and mosaics and the tea room will also be open!
Come along and have a relaxing, therapeutic and creative afternoon and sponsor my cycle/paddle/walk challenge or you can donate online to our team page at www.action.org.uk/sponsor/stiffjoints
Action Medical Research for children finds ways to help children through researching the causes, and finding breakthrough cures, for both common and rare forms of conditions and illnesses.
The charity was founded in 1952 by Duncan Guthrie in his quest to find a cure for polio, a condition that affected the lives of many thousands of children and early research funded by the charity helped to develop the first oral polio vaccine which eradicated new cases of the disease in the UK.
In Scotland they have funded advances in ultra sound scans and treating serious head injuries in children and funded the establishment of the Duncan Guthrie Institute of Medical Genetics. The institute aims to provide early diagnosis and medical help for children by testing samples from new born babies from all over Scotland for conditions such as cystic fibrosis.
At the moment they are also carrying out research into Autism, Asthma and cataracts in children and the devastating causes of still births.
Please help me and my team to raise money for this valuable research work. Thank you.”